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Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia - From the Past to the Present (Paperback)
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Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia - From the Past to the Present (Paperback)
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Sea nomads have been part of the economic and political landscape
of Southeast Asia for millennia. They have played many roles over
the longue-durEe: in certain periods proving central to the ability
of land-based polities to generate wealth, by sourcing valuable
maritime commodities, facilitating trade, forming a naval force to
secure and protect vital sea lanes and providing crucial
connectivity. They have existed in complex, codified relations with
different sedentary populations, as pirates, guardians of the
sea-lanes, merchants and explorers. Paradoxically, as modern states
emerged, the sea-nomads became progressively marginalized and
impoverished. For many years, the sea nomads were assumed to be
without history, and even without archaeology. This has proven far
from the case, and recent archaeological findings allow us to more
closely describe sea nomadism from the Pleistocene through the
early Holocene up to the present. Integrating these findings with
the latest in historical research, linguistics, ethnography and
historical genetics allows us to better understand sea-nomad ways
of life over a scale of millennia and to appreciate the diversity
and flexibility of this sea-nomad world. This in turn enriches our
understanding of nomadism and mobility as ways of life more
generally, and of the sea not only as a landscape of resources, but
as a home and spiritual landscape.
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